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thank you both for joining us. this issue comes back repeatedly and unfortunately fades into oblivion just as quickly. can you sense in your day to day advocacy, day to day since this horrific day over the weekend what has changed? >> i really believe the momentum is in my favor. people are as fed up as bob costas is with the state of affairs, currently. people want change, and they want to see the president lead when it comes to that change. >> you were on this show a couple of months ago actually when i was out in denver, you had just come out with your ad with this unbelievably 30 second powerful ad begging and pleading at some point in the presidential debates for somebody to discuss gun control. you were in that movie theater shot. you look great your life was altered. has the white house responded called you said anything? >> no, not directly, and, you know, that's tough but we're hopeful, really, that we'll be able to reach out to them in the next term. >> and then am i right that the argument and maybe i ca
thank you both for joining us. this issue comes back repeatedly and unfortunately fades into oblivion just as quickly. can you sense in your day to day advocacy, day to day since this horrific day over the weekend what has changed? >> i really believe the momentum is in my favor. people are as fed up as bob costas is with the state of affairs, currently. people want change, and they want to see the president lead when it comes to that change. >> you were on this show a couple of...
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they will decide for us when they get to break the law. on tuesday murdoch's son and former heir james stepped down from b sky b. the younger murdoch is fighting the perception he gave dishonest testimony before parliament. they're expected to release a report detailing the hacking in the paper, news of the world. 40 of murdoch's journalists and executives have been arrested from news of the world. let's bring in the man who owns the news, michael, nobody knows more about the media, journalism or rupert murdoch or you. does this go all the way to the top. >> of course it does. i mean, in every respect this is about one thing. it's about the murdoch family. it's about the ethos that they brought to this company. it's about how they carried out the ethos. it's about how the children relate to the father. it's about how the father relates to the children. it's their mess. >> this is a shakespeareen play on so many different levels. but it strikes me as someone who has been a prosecutor and in government, yes, we broke the law but we determine
they will decide for us when they get to break the law. on tuesday murdoch's son and former heir james stepped down from b sky b. the younger murdoch is fighting the perception he gave dishonest testimony before parliament. they're expected to release a report detailing the hacking in the paper, news of the world. 40 of murdoch's journalists and executives have been arrested from news of the world. let's bring in the man who owns the news, michael, nobody knows more about the media, journalism...
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it's great for us to talk about, but at the end of the day did they really matter that much? >> you are right although the swing state voters won't will so differentiated from the national poles. joe, but she is right, we are going toe be looking very soon only at ohio and the other swing states, and the rest of the guys, you won't matter. you are predictable. >> if you are talking about those states particularly the rust belt, ohio pennsylvania indiana, i think they resinate. certainly in detroit they do, where you have romney not winning the popular republican primary vote in his own home state, and that's largely -- he won the primary, but it was a struggle. it should haven't been as difficult as it was. certainly that is because a lot of the message that his republican opponents was about capitalism downsizing and the fact that romney didn't support the detroit auto rescue. i think the swing states come into sharper focus when that does happen. >> but there is -- this is what you and i and i'm sure joe as well, think that mitt romney has to focus on. there does seem to be
it's great for us to talk about, but at the end of the day did they really matter that much? >> you are right although the swing state voters won't will so differentiated from the national poles. joe, but she is right, we are going toe be looking very soon only at ohio and the other swing states, and the rest of the guys, you won't matter. you are predictable. >> if you are talking about those states particularly the rust belt, ohio pennsylvania indiana, i think they resinate....
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europe and japan used to lead the world. no, no one does. what happens when countries call 9-1-1 and no one picks up the phone. state rye here on viewpoint. to eliot spitzer. >>join the debate now. you'd spot movement, gather intelligence with minimal collateral damage. but rather than neutralizing enemies in their sleep you'd be targeting stocks to trade. well, that's what trade architect's heat maps do. they make you a trading assassin. trade architect. td ameritrade's empowering web-based trading platform. trade commission-free for 60 days, and we'll throw in up to $600 when you open an account. [ kristal ] we're just taking a sample of all our different items in our festival of shrimp. the crab-stuffed shrimp are awesome! tequila lime tacos. [ man ] delicious! [ male announcer ] it's festival of shrimp! for $12.99 try any two shrimp creations like new barbeque glazed shrimp. offer ends soon. we're servers at red lobster. and we sea food differently. in 2012 go to our website, current.com. up next it's out to the campaign trail. a surpris
europe and japan used to lead the world. no, no one does. what happens when countries call 9-1-1 and no one picks up the phone. state rye here on viewpoint. to eliot spitzer. >>join the debate now. you'd spot movement, gather intelligence with minimal collateral damage. but rather than neutralizing enemies in their sleep you'd be targeting stocks to trade. well, that's what trade architect's heat maps do. they make you a trading assassin. trade architect. td ameritrade's empowering...
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. >> right, and which i think all of us feel and certainly the three of us, i don't want to speak for anybody but it needs to be dealt with on a federal and national level for any coherent meaning that is attached to our immigration laws. cecelia let me ask you what would this mean in a real life law enforcement context. the general solicitor gave that argument away. should he have given it away so quickly? was he obligated to give it away at this point? that is what this law will do to us. >> he didn't actually give it away. he pointed out even though sb 1070 targets undocumented immigrants u.s. citizens and lawfully present immigrants are going to be effected by that law. if you're an united states citizen, you. to go out for a jog in the morning and you don't have your license on you if a police officers stops you fortress passing in a closed park, as it was pointed out you're going to be streeted treated to a strip to jail by officers who think you're an illegal immigrant. that's the relevant to the narrow question of states rights. the supreme court has always said if a state act
. >> right, and which i think all of us feel and certainly the three of us, i don't want to speak for anybody but it needs to be dealt with on a federal and national level for any coherent meaning that is attached to our immigration laws. cecelia let me ask you what would this mean in a real life law enforcement context. the general solicitor gave that argument away. should he have given it away so quickly? was he obligated to give it away at this point? that is what this law will do to...
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and hal sparks will join us. but first, the reviews keep coming in on the supreme court's split decision on arizona's immigration law. you will be shocked to here that some very familiar figures on the right have worked themselves into a bit of a tizzy. justice antonin scalia claimed the obama administration opposed the law because it, quote, desperately wants to avoid upsetting foreign powers. i guess he means mexico -- and that the majority ofpinion boggles the mind. this from a guy who thinks jesus liked the death penalty. as for jan brewer, she told a local white house, the white house opposition was part of a plot to get illegal immigrants to cross into this country to vote to help reelect the president. >> they want chaos. they want a larger voting base as far as i am concerned and they want the illegal immigration to continue so the illegals can all do whatever they want and register to vote. it's illegal but they are not enforcing the law. so what's going to happen to them? he is looking for votes. >> jan
and hal sparks will join us. but first, the reviews keep coming in on the supreme court's split decision on arizona's immigration law. you will be shocked to here that some very familiar figures on the right have worked themselves into a bit of a tizzy. justice antonin scalia claimed the obama administration opposed the law because it, quote, desperately wants to avoid upsetting foreign powers. i guess he means mexico -- and that the majority ofpinion boggles the mind. this from a guy who...
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you know, disqualified for marijuana use, that's not disqualifying anymore. the purpose of the vet is so they are not caught unprepared. so they might find out something that they deem too taboo but i think they are trying to get everything on the table so if and when it was come out, they'll be prepared to deal with it. >> i think that's right. there seems to be one sickle whereas you point out, ginsberg got knocked out of the supreme court for smoking pot, which these days people would go come on? grow up. there is a shift in what is and is not a disqualifying factor but you do have two individuals now who were -- they wouldn't dispute this kind of plane vanilla boring shall i say in the consequence of excessive vetting. >> i think it's a consequence of sarah palin. >> right. >> i think the romney vet is occurring in the shadow of what happened with palin. and i think he is a conservative guy, the campaign is conservative. he wants to play it safe. i think they are all worried about what happened with palin. but that doesn't mean in 2016 you'll see this sor
you know, disqualified for marijuana use, that's not disqualifying anymore. the purpose of the vet is so they are not caught unprepared. so they might find out something that they deem too taboo but i think they are trying to get everything on the table so if and when it was come out, they'll be prepared to deal with it. >> i think that's right. there seems to be one sickle whereas you point out, ginsberg got knocked out of the supreme court for smoking pot, which these days people would...
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give us a broader base. then because you could raise a lot more, kind of -- but we'll spend a lot more on anti-poverty programs. >> perhaps i wouldn't go as far as having a flat tax because our income inequality is so intense there is a very good case of trying to tax the very rich but i do think the flatter tax would be very useful. >> eliot: the problem we have politically here in the u.s. of course is there is this fundamental aversion to the size of government, to a big government. and what you're suggesting is that we need different scale of government. we need a bigger government that actually is willing to spend more on the anti-poverty programs. emotionally, the public doesn't want that. even warren buffett recently said we shouldn't spend more than 21% of gdp. you're saying we should be spending more than that. >> well, yes. if you decide that income inequality is a problem and more and more economists are coming to that conclusion that it is hurting our growth. it createless all sorts of -- what we
give us a broader base. then because you could raise a lot more, kind of -- but we'll spend a lot more on anti-poverty programs. >> perhaps i wouldn't go as far as having a flat tax because our income inequality is so intense there is a very good case of trying to tax the very rich but i do think the flatter tax would be very useful. >> eliot: the problem we have politically here in the u.s. of course is there is this fundamental aversion to the size of government, to a big...
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thanks so much for joining us. out in wisconsin at least we have been hearing that there is virtually no emotion behind this. are people turning out in wisconsin even to vote in this primary? >> if there's no emotion it's because they are so depressed over the negative ads. the romney campaign has spent nearly $3.5 million in advertisement. so they believe this is an important state. so there are a lot of negative ads that are running, and they are hitting each other extremely hard. a lot of the emotional attention for one particular ad that rick santorum was running against mitt romney, which compares to mitt romney to president obama and says he was a blueprint for health care, and the bells and whistles that the republicans don't like. but this is very much a competitive race at least if you believe the ad spending. >> i'm beginning to think that president obama's two favorite friends in the entire world are paul ryan, and rick santorum who is doing everything that barack obama would want rick santorum to do to
thanks so much for joining us. out in wisconsin at least we have been hearing that there is virtually no emotion behind this. are people turning out in wisconsin even to vote in this primary? >> if there's no emotion it's because they are so depressed over the negative ads. the romney campaign has spent nearly $3.5 million in advertisement. so they believe this is an important state. so there are a lot of negative ads that are running, and they are hitting each other extremely hard. a lot...
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thank for your time tonight. >> great to be with you eliot. >> remind us -- explain to us again the import of the flow rate. what it means, and compare the numbers in these emails to what bp was saying at the time. >> well i got to tell you, eliot this is probably the most explosive story we have had since the blowout itself. we now -- at least the fbi alleged that bp knew what the flow rate of the well was, and they knew it was far higher than what the public estimates were. the one you mentioned that if the flow rate was over 15 billion a day they knew the top kill wouldn't work. and they went through that procedure anyway. and the most important thing probably is liability and damages were determined by the number of barrels that the well flowed into the water. bp never actually measured the flow of the well during that three-month period. it was all by estimates. some of us believe they didn't measure it intentionally and underestimated the flow of the well for months even for years. we now know it is much much higher than the flow they are saying. >> at that level the damages to be as
thank for your time tonight. >> great to be with you eliot. >> remind us -- explain to us again the import of the flow rate. what it means, and compare the numbers in these emails to what bp was saying at the time. >> well i got to tell you, eliot this is probably the most explosive story we have had since the blowout itself. we now -- at least the fbi alleged that bp knew what the flow rate of the well was, and they knew it was far higher than what the public estimates were....
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i think the software, the investigators were using was used on american servers and when the evidence is finally brought to light they potentially breached the -- in the united states. you treat those far more seriously than we do in the u.k. >> eliot: tom, i think you're right. it is almost impossible when you look at how many people were hacked thousands of people over in great britain. many of whom traveled the world and were in los angeles new york, all over the convince. when they were hacking, they did not differentiate based upon where they were. they went after the phone number. i think as you point out, it is almost inevitable that information, with respect to hacking will end up proving out to violations of law here in the united states. tom watson, member of the british parliament and author of the recently published book "dial m for murdoch." thank you so much for your time. we look forward to have you back. >> thanks very much. >> eliot: the big banks and their poster boy jamie dimon. has he skated through the financial crisis our conversation is with you the viewer becau
i think the software, the investigators were using was used on american servers and when the evidence is finally brought to light they potentially breached the -- in the united states. you treat those far more seriously than we do in the u.k. >> eliot: tom, i think you're right. it is almost impossible when you look at how many people were hacked thousands of people over in great britain. many of whom traveled the world and were in los angeles new york, all over the convince. when they...
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wall street wants us to believe, one, you can trust us and two, we can regulate ourselves. let me tell you a story bark when i was attorney general we were about to bring a huge fraud case against merrill lynch. and they said eliot you are night, but we're not as bad as our competitors. and they thought that was a defense. so we put in place some measures to make sure they couldn't lie to the public the same way they had been. you know what this bill does? this bill repeals those measures. it's wrong. it's not fair. if there is no integrity in the marketplace, the middle class will not invest. that will be bad for the economy, bad for jobs bad for all of us. you know what the marketplace needs rules. it needs enforcement, and when wall street can dictate what those rules are or are not, bad things happen. how quickly can we forget the cataclysm of nearly four years ago, 2008. greg smith recently resigned from goldman sachs a senior executive and wrote a scathing op-ed? which he said it was a toxic environment. an environment where they, willing to lie to their customers sim
wall street wants us to believe, one, you can trust us and two, we can regulate ourselves. let me tell you a story bark when i was attorney general we were about to bring a huge fraud case against merrill lynch. and they said eliot you are night, but we're not as bad as our competitors. and they thought that was a defense. so we put in place some measures to make sure they couldn't lie to the public the same way they had been. you know what this bill does? this bill repeals those measures. it's...
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is shareholder power and is using shareholder power the smart next step in the lever we can use? >> i think it has to be because the government can't doing the job. and they are not doing the job we need them to do. i think shareholders obviously are only going to care about the bottom line. but the bottom line with these companies is that fraud and poor corporate government just don't pay. and i think shareholders are going to realize that and start to make demands of these corrupt executives like citigroup did the other day. >> we have reference points to suggest shareholders are waking up. citigroup's shareholders shareholders -- standing up. we don't want corporate money flowing into these corporate entitities. can shareholders say we just want you to do your job? father would you be supportive of that. if shareholdered were presented with an option to save the companies, just get out of that business? >> yes, absolutely. this is not appropriate for a bank like wells fargo, here we in california we are attempting to address the actions the banks have taken. stop bank rolling
is shareholder power and is using shareholder power the smart next step in the lever we can use? >> i think it has to be because the government can't doing the job. and they are not doing the job we need them to do. i think shareholders obviously are only going to care about the bottom line. but the bottom line with these companies is that fraud and poor corporate government just don't pay. and i think shareholders are going to realize that and start to make demands of these corrupt...
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robert reich joins us coming up ahead. the first 1,000 days of human life can cause irreparable harm to our brains and our bodies. that's why "current" has partnered with "1,000 days" to help spread the word & combat a problem that ultimately effects all of us. to see how you can help go to current dot com. brought to you by the all new dodge dart. dodge - new rules. >> eliot: how does hp make a mistake this big and i mean big! our number of the day $8.8 billion! that's how much hp says it overpaid for british software company. last year, hp bought autonomy for $11.1 billion. today hp announced that oops,oomi is -- autonomy is worth a fraction of that. autonomy misrepresented its finances. but if hp got hoodwinked, how? how could they miss something they claim is that big. autonomy was audited by deloitte and it was audited by kpmg, two of the big four accounting firms. they didn't notice anything? really? this sale involved a list of banks and law firms on both sides of the deal that are supposed to be in the best in the
robert reich joins us coming up ahead. the first 1,000 days of human life can cause irreparable harm to our brains and our bodies. that's why "current" has partnered with "1,000 days" to help spread the word & combat a problem that ultimately effects all of us. to see how you can help go to current dot com. brought to you by the all new dodge dart. dodge - new rules. >> eliot: how does hp make a mistake this big and i mean big! our number of the day $8.8 billion!...
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it tells people you use this process. you use this finite resource which is fossil fuels that is contributing 97% of scientists, 98% say it is a direct contribution to climate change. it is not a fantasy. it is fact. it is science. and it is a disincentive to promote alternatives, renewables better use. i think it is the way to go. i think it has some legs now. i don't see it happening immediately but at least if we can get the conversation started as the president said and him -- from his pulpit, direct that conversation and confront this issue, i think most americans the majority of americans are going to understand the dire consequences of ignoring an issue that is going to cost us economically and in terms of the cost of quality of life, tremendously down the future. >> eliot: there is an odd parallel here with the healthcare situation individual mandate which is a lightning rod for so much opposition, mitt romney idea, newt gingrich idea, heritage foundation idea, the carbon tax has been supported by some of the very
it tells people you use this process. you use this finite resource which is fossil fuels that is contributing 97% of scientists, 98% say it is a direct contribution to climate change. it is not a fantasy. it is fact. it is science. and it is a disincentive to promote alternatives, renewables better use. i think it is the way to go. i think it has some legs now. i don't see it happening immediately but at least if we can get the conversation started as the president said and him -- from his...
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joining us inside the war room 13 days until election. employees cast that ballot have a great night, and we'll see you here tomorrow. ♪ iewpoint" with eliot spitzer is next. see you tomorrow. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer and this "viewpoint." what is it that some republicans senate candidates don't understand about abortion and rape? plenty. as in ugly new battlefield on the war on women showed last night, and the time could not be worse for mitt romney. comments when an abortion appropriate came into a debate for indiana candidate for senate richard mourdock against democrat joe donnelly. they both say they're pro-life. richard mourdock said this. >> the i think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that god intended to happen. >> eliot: some republicans backed off michigan quickly. mike pens has urged richard mourdock to apologize. and others say quote richard mourdock's comments damage all republicans especially romney as the fight for the women's vote intensi
joining us inside the war room 13 days until election. employees cast that ballot have a great night, and we'll see you here tomorrow. ♪ iewpoint" with eliot spitzer is next. see you tomorrow. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: good evening i'm eliot spitzer and this "viewpoint." what is it that some republicans senate candidates don't understand about abortion and rape? plenty. as in ugly new battlefield on the war on women showed last night, and the time could not be...
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it almost gives us permission to be there with karzai. karzai has not said you can be in any country, but i don't see anything that obligates us to be there. joel, did i hear this correctly? >> you did. right now the u.s. is going to engage in naming afghanistan as a major ally. and that means that we can continue to have a presence of some sort there, but our active true presence in military combat mission is going to end by the end of 2014. there have been some hints it may end earlier. these types of decisions have their own momentum once they become clear. and now there is clarity. but post 2014 really depends on negotiation. and the president by saying that we leaves we should be working with or talking to the taliban it shows he is is looking for annen game. there are many different variabilities. the president is signalling we are getting out but doing it in a way that won't influence the ground. >> once our troops are out in 2014, we have the opportunity to leave there. we will second more troops in we get a written agreement that
it almost gives us permission to be there with karzai. karzai has not said you can be in any country, but i don't see anything that obligates us to be there. joel, did i hear this correctly? >> you did. right now the u.s. is going to engage in naming afghanistan as a major ally. and that means that we can continue to have a presence of some sort there, but our active true presence in military combat mission is going to end by the end of 2014. there have been some hints it may end earlier....
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which brings us to our number of the day. 26.2. that's the length of the marathon that will not be run by nearly 50,000 people sunday. after some argument, the annual new york city marathon has been called off. we're still too close to the tragedy of hurricane sandy and the ongoing clean this, hurricane fatalities are still turning up in staten island where the marathon would have started. and power generators, fresh water, and other resources brought in for runners are desperately needed by those who are still without shelter. staten island hilton garden inn already said they weren't going to kick out displaced residents in the hotel just to honor reservations for the marathon. then there is personnel. the marathon usually requires more than a thousand police officers to man the route. but all the emergency workers prison, fire emts have been working tirelessly all week. the police have even asked pore help from department >> eliot: with three days to go in what has been a year-long marathon, president obama and mitt romney are ru
which brings us to our number of the day. 26.2. that's the length of the marathon that will not be run by nearly 50,000 people sunday. after some argument, the annual new york city marathon has been called off. we're still too close to the tragedy of hurricane sandy and the ongoing clean this, hurricane fatalities are still turning up in staten island where the marathon would have started. and power generators, fresh water, and other resources brought in for runners are desperately needed by...
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jacki speier, thank you for joining us on the show. i'm joined by terry o'neil, president of the national organization for women. thank you for joining us. >> eliot, it's great to talk to you. >> eliot: so now how do you lead the crusade. you've been unshackled, as it were, now you're ability to go out and say look who they are. how do you lead that effort so that in the next couple of weeks people can rip the mask and veneer off of mitt romney. >> that's what we've been doing for months, making the case and getting the word out to women for what is at stake for women in this election. i think--i think voters very understandably have a hard time wrapping their brain around the real danger that is presented to women by mitt romney, todd akin, richard mourdock, and paul ryan. i am met very often with disbelief. no those men are not really trying to redefine rape to be forcible. yes, they are. no, says voters, they're not really trying to stop rape victory from stopping pregnancies. pregnancies inmany pregnancies in this country are cause
jacki speier, thank you for joining us on the show. i'm joined by terry o'neil, president of the national organization for women. thank you for joining us. >> eliot, it's great to talk to you. >> eliot: so now how do you lead the crusade. you've been unshackled, as it were, now you're ability to go out and say look who they are. how do you lead that effort so that in the next couple of weeks people can rip the mask and veneer off of mitt romney. >> that's what we've been doing...
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let us know if there is gmo in our food. what are the health effects of this genetically modified stuff. what is the science on that? how much data do we have that we can rely upon, we can't rely upon those who are marketing their own products. >> that is exactly the problem. the patent holders for these genetically modified crops they own these crops as i say they've been patented as uniquely theirs. the u.s. government does not require independent safety analysis for these crops to be approved. as you know perfectly well in washington where now $600 million has been sent by bio tech to lobby regulatory, to narrow the aperture for regulatory approval, it has basically been an industry-driven proposition. there have only been a couple of independent studies. one came out this summer, a peer review in france that smuggled genetically produced corn seed out of canada, and it was scary. i'm not arguing because of this city we have a problem. the reality is we need research, and while we're waiting for that, citizens have a righ
let us know if there is gmo in our food. what are the health effects of this genetically modified stuff. what is the science on that? how much data do we have that we can rely upon, we can't rely upon those who are marketing their own products. >> that is exactly the problem. the patent holders for these genetically modified crops they own these crops as i say they've been patented as uniquely theirs. the u.s. government does not require independent safety analysis for these crops to be...